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> -SQL Pocket Guide
> -Windows Server Hacks
> -Excel Hacks
> -Digital Photography: Expert Techniques
> -Network Security Assessment
> -Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition
> -Linux for Non-Geeks
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> -Resizing an Image with Photoshop
> -What's New in Photoshop CS?
> -400 O'Reilly Books on Safari
> -Top Ten Tips to Make Attackersâ Lives Hell
> -Eleven Metrics to Monitor for a Happy and Healthy Squid
> -You Sexy Thing!
> -Creating Online Help with Tinderbox
> -Windows Server Hacks: Resetting User Passwords
> -Kill Internet Ads with HOSTS and PAC Files
> -Power Up Internet Explorer with Three Shells
> -Java and Sound, Part 1
> -Create Project Item Wizards
> -O'Reilly Learning Lab's .NET Certificate Series
> -Fun April Fool's Day Stuff
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> ***SQL Pocket Guide
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> Not just an endless collection of syntax diagrams, this guide succinctly
> covers the four commonly used SQL variants: Oracle, IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL
> Server, and MySQL. It also addresses the language's complexity head on,
> offering a concise reference to frequently used SQL statements and
> commonly used SQL functions. This handy book provides pocket-size help to
> programmers who use SQL in their day-to-day work.
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/sqlpr/index.html
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> A sample excerpt on Hierarchical Queries is available online:
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/sqlpr/chapter/index.html
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> 
> ***Windows Server Hacks
> Publisher: O'Reilly
> ISBN: 0-596-00647-0
> The tools, or hacks, in this book reveal techniques that go well beyond
> basic management tasks found in most handbooks. Hacks range from those
> that deal with general administration to more esoteric hacks in the areas
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> ***Excel Hacks
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> The tips and tools in this book include little-known "backdoor"
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> things--from data analysis to worksheet management to import/export--that
> you never thought possible. Excel Hacks increases your productivity and
> gives you hours of "hacking" enjoyment along the way. 
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/excelhks/
> 
> Sample hacks are available online:
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> 
> ***Digital Photography: Expert Techniques
> Publisher: O'Reilly
> ISBN: 0596005474
> Rather than a general discussion of photography principles, this
> four-color book focuses on workflow: time-tested, step-by-step procedures
> based on practitionersâ experiences of the art of digital photography.
> The book provides detailed information about what to look for in today's
> high-end digicams, how to use simple techniques and equipment to shoot
> breathtaking shots and great panoramas, doâs and don'ts for creating
> better Photoshop masks, and professional digital darkroom techniques.
> Serious photographers and professionals will find this problem-solving
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> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/dphotohdbk/
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> Chapter 3, "Bringing Out the Best Picture," is available online:
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> 
> ***Network Security Assessment
> Publisher: O'Reilly
> ISBN: 059600611X
> Using the same steps professional security analysts have adopted to
> identify and assess risks, this book offers an efficient testing model you
> can adopt, refine, and reuse to create defensive strategies to protect
> your systems from current threats, as well as those still being developed.
> This thorough guide covers offensive technologies by grouping and
> analyzing them at a higher level--from both an offensive and defensive
> standpoint--helping administrators design and deploy networks that are
> immune to exploits, tools, and scripts.
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/networksa/
> 
> Chapter 4, "IP Network Scanning," is available online:
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> ***Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition
> Publisher: O'Reilly
> ISBN: 0596005253
> "Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition" is a thorough
> review of all aspects of CSS2.1 and a comprehensive guide to CSS
> implementation. The book includes new content on positioning, lists and
> generated content, table layout, user interface, paged media, and more. It
> explores in detail each individual CSS property and how it interacts with
> other properties, and shows how to avoid common mistakes in
> interpretation. This book prepares you to take the next step with your
> HTML coding and incorporate CSS into your web pages.
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/css2/
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> Chapter 2, "Selectors," is available online:
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/css2/chapter/index.html
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> ***Linux for Non-Geeks
> Publisher: No Starch Press
> 1593270348
> "Linux for Non-Geeks" introduces you to Linux, without the technical
> jargon and advanced topics that you'd find in other books. You'll learn
> how to use Linux to do the normal, day-to-day computer tasks that you know
> how to do with another operating system, like connecting to and surfing
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> desktop, playing games, downloading software and fonts, printing, and
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> ***Robbie Allen ("DNS on Windows Server 2003," "Active Directory "), 
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> Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV
> http://www.winconnections.com/win/
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> 
> ***Brian Aker ("Running Weblogs with Slash") and Jeremy Zawodny ("High
> Performance MySQL"), MySQL Users Conference, Orlando, FL--Apr 14-16
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> News From O'Reilly & Beyond
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> General News
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> ***Resizing an Image with Photoshop
> Learn how to modify image size, when to resample, and how to handle
> resolution issues from Photoshop expert Deke McClelland. We've included a
> sample video file so you can get a taste of the hands-on video tutorials
> that are an integral part of Deke's recently released "Adobe Photoshop CS
> One-on-One."
> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/excerpt/PhotoshopCS_chap05/index.html
> 
> 
> ***What's New in Photoshop CS? 
> Photoshop CS may have fewer new features than version 7, but quality
> counts more than quantity, and Ken Milburn is pretty jazzed about the
> quality. In this article, he covers the new features in CS he's most
> excited about. Ken is the author of "Digital Photography: Expert
> Techniques"
> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2004/03/23/digphoto.html
> 
> 
> ***400 O'Reilly Books on Safari
> O'Reilly now boasts more than 400 books on Safari, the premier electronic
> reference library for IT professionals and programmers. We're proud to
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> 
> ---------------------
> Open Source
> ---------------------
> ***Top Ten Tips to Make Attackersâ Lives Hell 
> Chris McNab breaks down his top ten tips all network administrators should
> follow to protect their networks from opportunistic threats and make it
> hard for the more determined attackers to get anywhere. Chris is the
> author of the recently released "Network Security Assessment."
> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/security/2004/03/25/ntwksecurityassess.html
> 
> 
> ***Eleven Metrics to Monitor for a Happy and Healthy Squid 
> Duane Wessels offers 11 tips to help you stay on top of Squid's
> performance. If you follow this advice, you should be able to discover
> problems before your users begin calling you to complain. Duane is the
> creator of Squid and the author of "Squid: The Definitive Guide."
> http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/03/25/squid.html
> 
> ---------------------
> Mac
> ---------------------
> ***You Sexy Thing!
> Just about everyone looks great behind a cursor, but the days of
> communicating online exclusively with text are numbered. So Snaggy and
> Nitrozac offer their brand of advice on how to look great on iChat AV, in
> spite of iSight. With tips on proper lighting, camera angles, and using
> the right foundation, Snaggy and Nitrozac offer more of the high-tech
> humor you've come to know and love in their comic and in their book, "The
> Best of The Joy of Tech."
> http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/03/16/iSight.html  
> 
> 
> ***Creating Online Help with Tinderbox 
> Apple's online help system, Apple Help, has a dubious reputation among
> some Mac users, mainly because of poky performance. But Panther has
> improved the situation. Matt Neuburg built an online help system for a Mac
> application using a note-taking hypertext outliner called Tinderbox. He
> explains the process in this article.
> http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/03/30/online_help.html
> 
> ---------------------
> Windows
> ---------------------
> ***Windows Server Hacks: Resetting User Passwords 
> Resetting user passwords from the command line can save you time, but
> there are "gotchas" along the way. Mitch Tulloch, author of "Windows
> Server Hacks," shows you what to watch out for and how to reset passwords
> fast.
> http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2004/03/30/serverhacks_passwords.html
> 
> 
> ***Kill Internet Ads with HOSTS and PAC Files 
> You don't need special software to kill ads and objectionable Internet
> content--just use the power built right into the Windows browser.
> http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2004/03/30/hosts.html
> 
> 
> ***Power Up Internet Explorer with Three Shells
> Supercharge Internet Explorer with one of these three wrappers, and you
> won't be able to imagine how you got along without them.
> http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2004/03/23/ie_shells.html
> 
> For all the latest Windows tips and tricks visit:
> http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/
> 
> ---------------------
> Java
> ---------------------
> ***Java and Sound, Part 1 
> Where can you learn how to play simple audio clips with the
> java.applet.AudioClip class, as well as how to use the javax.sound.sampled
> and javax.sound.midi packages to do such things as load and play sound
> clips, and monitor and change the playback position within a clip? In
> these first excerpts in a two-part series of excerpts from Chapter 17
> ("Sound") of "Java Examples in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition."
> http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/excerpt/jenut3_ch17/index.html
> 
> 
> ***Bug Prevention with Code Generation: A J2EE Case Study 
> If you had to drill 12,000 holes, would you prefer a manual drill, or its
> automated equivalent? Francesco Aliverti-Piuri describes using code
> generation for discovering bugs in a J2EE example.
> http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2004/03/31/codeGen.html
> 
> ---------------------
> .NET
> ---------------------
> ***Create Project Item Wizards
> In a recent project, Niel Bornstein and his team had to produce a platform
> that included a set of base classes that other developers could use to
> develop Windows forms in Visual Studio .NET 2003. As the team worked on
> the base classes, it became clear that the developers would be able to
> crank out their forms a lot faster if they could also generate stubs and
> skeleton code for all the methods they needed to override in their own
> classes. Niel explains how to do it in this article.
> http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2004/03/22/wizards.html
> 
> 
> ***O'Reilly Learning Lab's .NET Certificate Series
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> 
> ------------------------------------
> Fun April Fool's Day Stuff 
> ------------------------------------
> 10 stories that could be pranks--but aren't
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3589239.stm
> 
> Google Copernicus Center is hiring (Google, 2004)
> http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html
> 
> The technology behind Google's great results (Google, 2002)
> http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html
> 
> Programming Parrot in a Nutshell (O'Reilly, 2001)
> http://www.oreilly.com/parrot/
> 
> The Story Behind the Parrot Prank 
> http://www.oreilly.com/news/parrotstory_0401.html
> 
> Still a good joke--47 years on
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/3591687.stm
> 
> 10 funniest media jokes on April Fools day
> http://english.pravda.ru/main/18/90/363/12398_jokes.html
> 
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> Until next time--
> 
> Marsee
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